{"id":353751,"date":"2026-03-19T04:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353751\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:28:07","slug":"bts-light-stick-prices-surge-ahead-of-comeback-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/353751\/","title":{"rendered":"BTS light stick prices surge ahead of comeback concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-hand BTS light sticks were selling for up to six times the original price ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com\/entertainment\/bts-arirang-comeback-2026-579386\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K-pop megagroup&#8217;s huge comeback concert<\/a> this weekend, an online reseller showed Wednesday (Mar 18).<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s biggest boy band reunites on Saturday for their first show in nearly four years, taking over central Seoul for a K-pop extravaganza\u00a0beamed live around the globe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>K-pop fans are known for their concert light sticks, which have become symbols of devotion to their artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>BTS&#8217; global fans, known as the ARMY, calls theirs the Army Bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The original price of the latest official version is around 50,000 won (US$33.67), but they are sold out.<\/p>\n<p>Listings on Bunjang, a major platform for used goods, are priced at between 100,000 and 330,000 won per unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The concert on Saturday will see BTS take the stage on the doorstep of the famed Gyeongbokgung royal palace.<\/p>\n<p>The area has also long been a site of political protests, including after former president Yoon Suk Yeol&#8217;s failed 2024 martial law declaration, when K-pop fans took part with glowsticks \u2013 a striking image that drew global attention. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second-hand BTS light sticks were selling for up to six times the original price ahead of the K-pop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6432,93,61,60,6521,278,541],"class_list":["post-353751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-bts","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-k-pop","tag-music","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}